Blook hunt

That editors see the web as fertile ground in the hunt for new authors is not so surprising. The latest report from the search engine Technorati shows 120,000 blogs are created every day and the blogosphere has doubled in size since May last year, with 70 million floating around in cyberspace. Even discounting the abandoned and forgotten, of which there are many, that still leaves millions of new voices clamouring for readers’ (and publishers’) attention – any one of which could be the next bestseller.